Alright you pesky new kids. Wanna know why The RTF is COOL? Wanna Know Why We Are Fam

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I'm new to this and wasn't here for the "glory days" of the past. What I do know is that it is a great resource for those trying to learn. I have even had the pleasure of speaking to the head janitor on the phone. I found the site 1 year before I got my 1st pup. Before finding this, I thought a lab was a lab... I had no idea about health certs, pedigrees or the dog games. I just wanted a dog to get a duck for me in the unlikely event that I hit one.

After doing my homework on this site, I ended up with a well bred lab, sent him to a trainer for several months and now I plan to enter AKC hunt tests with him. We work as team every day. That was not the plan 2 years ago.

[QUOTE=Ken Bora;1117145]Alright you pesky new kids. Wanna know why The RTF is COOL? Wanna Know Why We Are Family? Fast forward to tonight. Home from work, Dogs feed, bier in hand check front stoop. Huge box! The feller who was my contact at the retriever club works atStarline Inc.“Makers Of The Finest Handgun Brass”http://www.starlinebrass.comA very public THANK YOU to Starline Brass and to David Wolfe!!!

I am a newbie! But here's what's really awesome. I am a lucky newbie that gets to train with David Wolfe. There is a great training group here and these guys put in a lot of work to train and to help teach train. I can't tell you how fortunate I am to get to be around this group. Kevin Polley, Dave, Greg, these guys are great. And it's cool to see a post like this where the help reaches out there like this. Pretty cool!

It's time for Amnesty. Place is kind of boring with the old brothers and sisters banned from the dinner table.

Originally Posted by JusticeDog

That would be awesome!

Originally Posted by DSemple

I agree x 10

to branch off, on my own thread, thank you Happy ( rutt row, last time I thanked Happy all heck broke loose ) but for real, lets branch off. I also would be for some sort of amnesty. Summer is round the corner. could 2013 be the summer of forgiveness? that would be very cool. I would vote for that.

"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold

"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin